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Title: Elizabeth Boynton Harbert papers
Inclusive Dates: 1848-1950
Bulk Dates: 1880-1925
Collection Number: mssHarbert
Creator:
Harbert, Elizabeth Boynton, 1845-
Extent:
Approximately 4,400 items in 20 boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Fax: (626) 449-3477
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of feminist, suffragist, author and lecturer Elizabeth Boynton
Harbert and her family.
Language of Material: The material is in English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the
Reader Services Department.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such
activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
[Identification of Item], Elizabeth Boynton Harbert papers, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from Elizabeth B. Frederick, December 1969.
Elizabeth Morrison Boynton Harbert, a feminist, suffragist, author and lecturer, was active from an early age in support of
the rights of women to vote and to obtain a higher education. She served for twelve years as president of the Illinois Woman
Suffrage Association, corresponded extensively with other prominent feminist leaders, wrote pamphlets and books, and was active
in numerous women's, political, religious and philanthropic organizations. In 1870 she married lawyer William Soesbe Harbert.
They had three children: Arthur Boynton (d.1900), Corinne Boynton, and Elizabeth Harbert Rowe. The Harberts relocated to Pasadena,
California later in their lives and Elizabeth died there in 1925.
The collection consists of the papers of Elizabeth Boynton Harbert. Chiefly correspondence, the collection also contains
manuscripts (including diaries, address books of woman suffrage workers, poetry and music), printed matter and ephemera, large
scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, some photographs, and an extensive collection of pamphlets and broadsides on the topic
of woman suffrage.
Subject matter represented in the collection includes the woman suffrage movement (particularly in Iowa, Illinois, and California),
and related organizations (including the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association); religious and philanthropic organizations (including
the Women's Christian Temperance Union); editorial and journalistic activities of Elizabeth Boynton Harbert; and Harbert family
matters.
Correspondents include: Susan B. Anthony, Rachel Foster Avery, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Clara Dorothy Bewick Colby, Matilda Joslyn
Gage, Helen Mar Jackson Gougar, Julia Ward Howe, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Caroline M. Seymour Severance, May Wright Sewall,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Elizabeth Willard.
The material previously housed in the seven green binders can be found in Boxes 10, 16, 17, and 19 (Binder 1 was previously
Rare Book 408105).
Material from three of the original series in the collection can be found in Ephemera, Rare Book stacks, Scrapbook 97.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following series: Biographies (Box 1); Woman Suffrage (Boxes 2-12); Letters to Elizabeth
Boynton Harbert (Boxes 13-14); Elizabeth Boynton Harbert and William S. Harbert Manuscripts and Personal Letters (Boxes 15-16);
Newspapers, Magazines, Pamphlets and Books (Box 17); Diaries, Address Books, Notes, Manuscripts, Poetry, Binders and Oversize
(Boxes 18-20).
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Avery, Rachel Foster, 1858-1919
Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, 1818-1894
Colby, Clara Dorothy Bewick, 1846-1916
Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1826-1898
Gougar, Helen Mar Jackson, 1843-1907
Harbert, Elizabeth Boynton, 1845- -- Archives
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton), 1820-1905
Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914
Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898
Illinois Equal Suffrage Association
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Feminists -- United States -- Archives
Suffragists -- United States -- Archives
Temperance -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Women -- Societies and clubs
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Women's rights -- United States
Evanston (Ill.)
Pasadena (Calif.)
Address book -- United States
Broadsides -- United States
Clippings (information artifacts)
Diaries -- United States
Letters (correspondence) -- United States
Manuscripts -- United States
Pamphlets -- United States
Personal papers -- United States
Scrapbooks -- United States